Pacific history claims to have decolonized by focusing on Islanders as active
agents who made participatory choices in their interactions with outsiders.
"Islander-oriented" studies are a decided improvement over imperial ...

Independent Solomon Islands inherited lands that the colonial state had acquired
and dedicated for forest use. Solomon Islanders became increasingly wary of the
government's intentions regarding control of these lands and, ...

Alan Duff's novel Once Were Warriors is the first work of fiction to be
published in the Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature series of the
University of Hawai'i Press. One reason for choosing this novel was that
it ...

This paper discusses the kinds of models that became available in the colonial
context for indigenous men to be men in what eventually became the country of
Papua New Guinea. One of the legacies of colonialism and the ...